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Hope Springs Eternal. Next day the King desperately recalled one of the nation's elder statesmen, ex-Premier Ibrahim Hashim, 67, to head a "caretaker" government, and promised an election within four months to decide whether to join the Baghdad pact. Then the King boarded his personal plane, circled over his capital city of Amman to watch the effect. Mobs continued marching through the streets, and by now professional porters were distributing stones from baskets on their backs. But by week's end, the furor had abated, especially after the King freed 1,000 arrested rioters. The toll...
...brilliantly fills that bill is Hashim Khan, 40, of Pakistan, generally regarded as the best squash player in the world. Last week Hashim arrived in the U.S. to compete in the second U.S. open-singles championship (Jan. i, 2, 3), sponsored by the U.S. Squash Racquets Association. Since he began playing in big tournaments ten years ago, Hashim Khan has been beaten only once-in the first U.S. open a year ago. Hashim, who had learned the British game in Peshawar, had never played it U.S.-style (narrower and longer court, livelier ball, slightly heavier racket), and he had only...
...child, Hashim played on the courts at the officers' club in Peshawar, and by the time he was ten, he was neglecting school and spending lunch money for court fees. Soon he was the best pro in the Indian peninsula, and four years ago modest Hashim Khan was persuaded to compete in England. The Royal Pakistan Air Force put up the money. In 1951 he won all of Britain's major tournaments, and (except for one default) he has won them every year since...
...Hashim, a family man with six children, is stocky (5 ft. 6 in., 147 Ibs.), looks like a darker, balding version of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Says Hashim: "I want to play to make propaganda for my country. I am getting a little too old for the game now, but my air-force sponsors tell me I must play for three or four more years, and I never forget that they have made me what I am. I kill myself for them and to keep Pakistan the champion in squash...
SYRIA (pop. 3,227,000): another slice of Ottoman Turkey mandated to France after World War I; republic, completely independent since 1946. Head of state: President HASHIM BEY ATASSI, 85. Real boss: Colonel ADIB SHISHAKLI who seized power in a coup late in 1949. Army: 25,000, one armored brigade, French equipment, weak staff. Militant member of the Arab League...